Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A Missouri escrow firm that lost $440,000 in a 2010 cyberheist cannot hold its bank responsible, an appeals court ruled this week. The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit’s decision this month affirmed a lower court ruling in the case. The appeals court also held that the escrow firm can be…
Code Spaces destroyed in wake of extortion demand
Ouch. Here’s the cached copy of a notice that appeared on the code hosting site earlier: Code Spaces : Is Down! Dear Customers, On Tuesday the 17th of June 2014 we received a well orchestrated DDOS against our servers, this happens quite often and we normally overcome them in a way that is transparent to the Code Spaces community. On…
Canada: Stolen Customer Data Results In Ontario’s First Certified Privacy Class Action
Michael J. Paris of Bennett Jones LLP writes: Businesses that collect personal information have an added incentive to monitor employees handling customer data – Ontario’s first class action arising from the new tort of “intrusion upon seclusion” was certified last week.1 In Evans v Bank of Nova Scotia, the plaintiffs sought to certify a class action…
Ontario's doctors support action taken by Ontario Privacy Commissioner
The OMA supports recent action taken by Ontario Privacy Commissioner Dr. Ann Cavoukian to prevent the indiscriminate disclosure of attempted suicide information by the Toronto Police Service (TPS). Mental health information is extremely sensitive in nature; widespread access to this information by the police and other authorities in the absence of a real and pressing threat to public safety…
CA: Hospital releases sensitive patient info by mistake
Bob Ponting reports from San Diego: Hospital employees sent out detailed personal information about more than 14,000 patients to several job applicants by mistake this month, officials at Rady Children’s Hospital said Wednesday. Officials said the security breach, which happened on June 6, prompted an internal review and the discovery of a second breach in…
P.F. Chang’s Breach Likely Began in Sept. 2013
Brian Krebs, who broke the P.F. Chang’s breach, now has another scoop about the breach – that it appears to have gone on for at least nine months: New information indicates that the breach at the nationwide restaurant chain began on or around Sept. 18, 2013, and didn’t end until June 11, one day after…